On Friday, Mexico's president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador told a morning news briefing that the problem was caused by 'a lack of hugs, of embraces.'
Dr. Caleb Alexander, epidemiologist and drug safety expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses second-hand exposure to fentanyl.
The comment by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caps a week of provocative statements from him about the crisis caused by the fentanyl, a synthetic opioid trafficked by Mexican cartels that has been blamed for about 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States. On Friday, the Mexican president told a morning news briefing that the problem was caused by "a lack of hugs, of embraces.""There is a lot of disintegration of families, there is a lot of individualism, there is a lack of love, of brotherhood, of hugs and embraces," López Obrador said of the U.S. crisis. "That is why they should be dedicating funds to address the causes.
Cartels frequently sell methamphetamines in Mexico, where the drug is more popular because it purportedly helps people work harder.
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